Official troubadour Raúl Torres confirmed that the Cuban revolution has “more than 62,000 millennia to go” in a poem originally published on his social networks and later replicated by the official website. Cubadebate, with which he responded to the song “Patria y Vida”.
In the lyrics, entitled “Patria o Muerte por la Vida”, the singer-songwriter accuses members of the duo Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Yotuel, Maykel Obsorbo and El Funky of making the song for economic and profitable reasons.
“They have become faceless again / The transgressors of the people / One more hole for the ticket / Today I respond, then I deliver,” say some verses.
The musician also cited the United States as the scapegoat for most of the island’s problems according to the regime: “It makes the shit profitable / It makes the empire money / It makes it profitable to lie / and confuse the nations.”
“The government you sponsor has murdered, maimed and separated thousands of you. That doesn’t mean anything, coward. For that and more, always land or dead,” replied a user named Yaisel Pieter on his social networks.
Numerous state media have replicated the verses written by the Deputy of the National Assembly of the People’s Power since 2018, as is the case with Radio Cadena Habana, who described the song “Patria y Vida” as “buffoon” and “anticunan”. “worthless and worthless artists” for their authors.
Torres became the regime’s official troubadour since he composed “The Return of the Friend,” dedicated to the Venezuelan, at the death of Hugo Chávez; then “Through the sun”, for Fidel Castro’s 88th birthday, and two years later “Cabalgando con Fidel”, the regime’s anthem about Castro’s death. “Between laurels and olive trees” came a year later.
Not wanting to stop dedicating a song to Raúl Castro, he did so in “El Último Mambí”, where he compares the soldier to Sancho Panza.
In this vein of “timely trova” he dedicated the theme “Baracoa Rising” in 2016 to one of the regions most devastated by Hurricane Matthew, which hit Cuba that summer, and in 2018 he released “Hotel Tulipán” for the victims of the air disaster in May.
His insistence on sad business has led the Cuban choteo to baptize him as “the necrotrovador”.
Torres assured in an interview on the official website Cuba Yes that he didn’t ask a cent for the songs he wrote ‘Until the Revolution’. On that occasion he described as a “fascist order” those who attack him on social networks for composing topics like this.